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Season 30

Horizon Season 30

January. 04,1993
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8.6
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TV-PG
| Documentary

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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Horizon Season 30 Full Episode Guide

Episode 21 - Life is Impossible
First Aired: June. 28,1993

Horizon investigates how life began on Earth. Did it evolve on land surfaces on Earth, in the sea, or in space?

Episode 20 - Chimp Talk
First Aired: June. 21,1993

This documentary by Horizon looks back into the 1980's where the work of pioneer researchers trying to determine if chimpanzees could understand language was attacked as charlatanism. Now the public opinion has moved back in favour of the idea that apes can indeed talk to us. The program looks at the latest developments in the chimpanzee language laboratories in America.

Episode 19 - A Vital Poison
First Aired: June. 14,1993

Horizon describes how researchers discovered that a lethal gas, called nitric oxide, was behind some of the most basic functions of our bodies.

Episode 18 - The Electronic Frontier
First Aired: June. 07,1993

In this story, Horizon explores the endless stream of digital information available on demand to the public, but do we need, or even want it?

Episode 17 - Wot U Looking At?
First Aired: May. 24,1993

Horizon looks at causes of violence and asks psychologists to interview men and boys with a record of violence.

Episode 16 - Allergic to the 20th Century
First Aired: May. 10,1993

In this episode, Horizon examines Asthma, the illness that is the most common condition of the developed world.

Episode 15 - The New Alchemists
First Aired: April. 19,1993

Horizon reports on scientists who are planning smart aircraft wings and smart buildings that can sense earthquakes.

Episode 14 - Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard
First Aired: April. 05,1993

Follows a team of archaeologists led by Michael Novacek as they try to retrace the steps of an expedition launched by the American Museum of Natural History in the 1920's. The original expedition sought the origins of humanity but instead came across a virtual graveyard of the dinosaurs.

Episode 13 - Dante Goes to Hell
First Aired: March. 29,1993

Horizon presents the story of a robot named Dante, who goes into an active volcano in Antarctica to find out if volcanoes contribute to the ozone hole in our atmosphere.

Episode 12 - Resurrecting the Dead Sea Scrolls
First Aired: March. 22,1993

In this episode, Horizon examines the latest scientific evidence about the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Episode 11 - Whatever Happened to Star Wars
First Aired: March. 15,1993

Horizon shows how American scientists struggled to fulfil the dreams which challenged fundamental scientific laws.

Episode 10 - Iceman (Update)
First Aired: March. 08,1993

This is a Horizon update to the story of the Stone Age man found frozen in an Alpine glacier in 1991.

Episode 9 - Here Be Monsters
First Aired: March. 01,1993

This documentary by Horizon looks at how the Hubble space telescope is uncovering evidence of black holes in our distant galaxies.

Episode 8 - The Pyramid Builders
First Aired: February. 22,1993

This Horizon documentary looks at how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids without the use of the wheel, ramps, or levers.

Episode 7 - Suggers, Fruggers and Data-Muggers
First Aired: February. 15,1993

Horizon investigates how market research, opinion polls, TV ratings, and consumer surveys have got it disastrously wrong. Commercial decisions depend increasingly on this information, but just how good is that information?

Episode 6 - Mars Alive
First Aired: February. 08,1993

This Horizon episode attempts to answer the question if it will be possible to 'terraform' Mars by creating a new atmosphere, and then adding water and plants to make the planet habitable.

Episode 5 - No Ordinary Genius (2)
First Aired: February. 01,1993

This is the second part of a two-part Horizon series presenting a portrait of Richard Feynman, the American Nobel Prize winning physicist.

Episode 4 - No Ordinary Genius (1)
First Aired: January. 25,1993

This is the first part of a two-part Horizon series presenting a portrait of Richard Feynman, the American Nobel Prize winning physicist.

Episode 3 - TB - The Forgotten Plague
First Aired: January. 18,1993

This Horizon episode is about the new and terrible threat from tuberculosis which kills more people than any other infection.

Episode 2 - Cheating Time
First Aired: January. 11,1993

Horizon investigates the current benefits and disadvantages of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Episode 1 - Awakening the Frozen Addicts
First Aired: January. 04,1993

Horizons presents a report on a daring Swedish operation that transplants foetal tissue into the brains of Parkinson's disease sufferers.

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